Terms

What KinRate does

KinRate remembers what your household rated and keeps those scores for next time. You use it in a KinRate room on Telegram, by invite. Each night KinRate builds taste profiles from your household's ratings to shape its picks; they stay within your household. WhatsApp isn't available yet.

Access

• KinRate is invite-only and free.
• Access may be limited, changed, paused, or withdrawn.
• Do not use KinRate for restricted subjects.

Restricted subjects

KinRate is for rating shows and films. Do not use KinRate to rate, rank, recommend, or profile people or groups around restricted subjects.

• Health, medical treatment, mental health, diagnosis, symptoms, medication, supplements, or clinical decisions.
• Financial products, investments, credit, insurance, tax, debt, legal, immigration, or other professional advice.
• Politics, voting, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or trade-union status.
• Rating or profiling children. (Family picks filtered by age rating are fine.)
• Dating, sexual content, adult services, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, weapons, or illegal activity.
• Employment, housing, lending, education access, eligibility, risk scoring, or other decisions that affect a person's rights or opportunities.
• Harassment, shaming, ranking people, blacklists, surveillance, or any use that could harm a person or group.

Group consent

Each member must consent, by tapping "I'm 18 or older, join" on their invite, before their ratings are stored. KinRate is for adults 18 and over. We don't verify age. Household ratings are private by default. Sharing a wider score requires the household to ask us.

Children and family picks

KinRate can suggest family and kid-safe shows, filtered by US age ratings from TMDB as a guide only. No filter is perfect, and parents and guardians decide what their children watch. KinRate is for adults 18 and over. We don't verify age. Children's ratings and taste profiles stay within their household and are never used for ads; if a household asks us to switch on combined scores, its ratings, including children's, count only towards anonymised totals. The same rules for leaving a room and for deletion apply to children. Telegram's own age rules also apply.

Sharing a wider score

Sharing is off by default. If a household asks us to switch it on, its ratings may count towards combined scores across households that share. Those comparisons may be limited where too few households have shared. In future we may share or sell aggregated, anonymised rating data from households that have shared, such as how well a title is rated across many households. We never sell data that identifies you, your household or your messages. Taste profiles are never shared.

Messaging platforms

KinRate runs on Telegram. In a private chat it replies to messages you send it. In a group, it responds only to replies to its messages, its buttons, and commands. A plain message, including an @mention, gets no reply. It messages you first only to tell you when someone in your household rates a title. KinRate is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Telegram, WhatsApp or Meta.

No reliance

KinRate records are preference signals, not professional advice. Do not rely on KinRate for medical, financial, legal, safety-critical, regulated, eligibility, or rights-affecting decisions.

Contact

Questions or invite requests can be sent to hello@kinrate.com. If you are not happy with how we handled your personal information, you can complain to the Information Regulator, South Africa's authority under POPIA.